Information Amendment (Vaccination Reporting) Principles 2021

I, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following principles.

Dated 22 July 2021

Greg Hunt

Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Information Principles 2014

1  Name

  This instrument is the Information Amendment (Vaccination Reporting) Principles 2021.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Aged Care Act 1997.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Information Principles 2014

1  At the end of section 7

Add:

Note: Information specified in this Part that is disclosed under subsection 86‑9(1) of the Act must not include personal information about a person (see subsection 86‑9(2) of the Act).

2  At the end of section 8

Add:

 ; (e) information given to the Secretary under section 30C or 30D of the Accountability Principles 2014 (relating to numbers of service staff and care recipients who have received certain vaccinations).